Let's now have a look at the main warships in the DKM at the end of the year of 1939 and we start with the battleship "Scharnhorst", which underwent several changes during its build which deserve to be looked at more in detail. https://i.imgur.com/dUtUgKp.png I took as basis the original design alre...
Good backstory do dictate a lot of things. In terms of ships it remodels Kriegsmarine to the core, when break GB by atlantic convoy raids is not needed, navy will get a lot less funding and all famous capital ships just not materialize. Without anschluss size of army is smaller, without invading Cz...
Let's go back to the year von Witzleben's government finally got a firm grip of the situation in Germany. And yes, as our friend from Poland Rhade put it in his post, Germany saw then itself (1936 and in the AU described here) as sort of guarantee to small nations mainly bordering with the USSR. Tha...
Awesome work! Thanks! Believe me when I say that the many drawings I've been making throughout time mainly regarding warships of the WWII era have taught me a lot of things! Not only on the technical side (hulls, propulsions, armament, air fleets carried, radars on the side of each nation, etc., et...
Interesting reply of yours. So, since I need arguments for my AU WWII story, I'll add then Poland to Finland in the "list of Secret Additional Protocol" signed by von Witzleben's government. And in reality, it helps me, since the visit of Konstantin von Neurath to Moscow ("my von Ribbentrop" so to s...
Ok... but when the part with WW will came? For now the renewed Deutsche Republik (or maybe slow steps to reinstate monarchy?) made peace with neighbours and notorious invader from Austria is out of picture with his merry band of wackos so... what next? What lead to WW? Soviets this time start first...
"matedow" wrote in the previous page: «Hancock-class CVL Conversion The armored cruiser Tolland was moored in Pearl Harbor on 7 December where she took two torpedoes and sunk to the bottom with her main deck exposed. She was raised and towed to the Puget Sound NSY for permanent repairs. Upon arrival...